IRS: He’s Bad, He’s Bad, You Know It, He’s, Well, Not That Bad

Wesley Snipes reached a settlement with the IRS concerning his tax fraud charges, reports Variety. The actor, who is currently filming a movie in Namibia, has agreed to a payment plan for the $12 million in taxes he allegedly hasn’t paid and will surrender to authorities when he returns to the U.S. In return, the feds won’t seek a prison sentence and allow him to work abroad.

According to the Oct. 17 indictment, Snipes had his taxes prepared by accountants at American Rights Litigators, a firm the indictment alleges with a history of filing false returns to reap payments for their clients.

Snipes is in Namibia shooting the horror pic “Gallowwalker.” Next up: He heads to Thailand to film “Chasing the Dragon,” in which he’ll play an FBI agent chasing down not a dragon, but a drug lord. Said an executive providing financing for “Gallowwalker”: “If his indictment creates this amount of press it shows he is a star.”

We agree, Snipes is a star. Want proof? Check out in this nine-minute YouTube video clip of our favorite Snipes role ever: His 1987 performance as a gang leader in the Martin Scorcese-directed Michael Jackson music video “Bad.” At about the one minute mark, Snipes excoriates Jackson for being a softie:

Snipes: “What are you doing, huh? You ain’t down with us no more. You ain’t down. You ain’t bad. You ain’t bad.”

Jackson: “You ain’t bad! You ain’t nothin’! You ain’t nothin’!

What follows this dramatic dialogue is the best gang dancing this side of “West Side Story.” The YouTube critique says it just right: “Michael shows them that he is bad too, but just not in the way that they want him to be.”

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